We have had nothing but fantastic weather these summer holidays, though on a few occasions we could have had more wind. After the Eastwoods left ship (thanks for a great time guys) on the 3rd we hung around in Port Fitzroy for a day and then headed around to the east side of Great Barrier, taking advantage of an all too rare weather window. Incredible beaches and incredible weather, just awesome.
We're now down at Te Kouma, off the western Coromandel Peninsula, having had a fantastic sail down yesterday, broad to tight reaching in 20-25 knots, occasionally hitting 30 knots, trucking along at 8-10 knots boat speed with just a double reefed main and reefed jib. Becs seemed alternately exhilarated and terrified!
Kamalii has behaved herself well, except for some recurring problems we had at the start with air in the fuel line for the engine - looks like one of my new hoses has a leaky connection on the vacuum side. Running the electric lift pump so there is no vacuum on the supply line to the engine fixed the problem, but will have to hunt down that leaky hose. We also have a leaking injector, so will take the shiny set of brand new injectors that came with the boat and do a swap this summer; otherwise the engine is running beautifully.
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| Mike earns his keep replacing the masthead lightbulb. Unfortunately the light unit did not survive the operation, so I will be fitting a new LED unit when we get back. |
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| Just to prove we did catch fish. Nice tuna it was too... |
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| Definitely the preferred sunbathing location. |
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